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I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
Novelist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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